Ethnic Studies
Ethnic Studies
WHITE RACISM ON THE WESTERN URBAN FRONTIER: DYNAMICS OF RACE AND CLASS IN DUBUQUE, IOWA (1800-2000)
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WHITE RACISM ON THE WESTERN URBAN FRONTIER: DYNAMICS OF RACE AND CLASS IN DUBUQUE, IOWA (1800-2000)
This book examines almost two hundred years of race and ethnic relations and white-on- black racism in Dubuque, Iowas oldest industrial city, in connection with political and economic developments at the local, state, and national levels.
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WOMEN TO WOMEN: YOUNG AMERICANS IN SOUTH AFRICA
Women to Women" represents a remarkable conversation among South African and American women about race, class and gender and the challenge of building an egalitarian nation out of the remnants of one of the most unequal societies in the worldapartheid-era...
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BEAUTY IN BLACK PERFORMANCE: PLAYS FOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN YOUTH
The four plays in this book bring together aspects of American history and culture that dramatize the presence and contributions of Africans and African Americans in the shaping of the United States. Product details Publisher : Africa World Press (May 26,...
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ELOBI: POEMS
elobi/ the chant is born of a swallowed screamof speech dilutedin beads of tearsdried by masculine modestytrue speechretreated to the bordersof withdrawal elobi is the specifically cameroonian way of referring to the wet, swampy areas that
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BREAKING STONE SILENCE: GIVING VOICE TO AIDS PREVENTION IN AFRICA
Breaking Stone Silence is about the astounding struggle over life and land in Africa and the resounding relationship between principles of prevention, community organization, social justice and community health. Product details Publisher : Africa World Press (March 1, 2006) Language : English...
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EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON BESSIE HEAD
This long-awaited anthology covers new thoughts and theories on the eminent and controversial writer, Bessie Head. Ever since her death in 1986, at the early age of forty-nine, Head has continued to capture our political, historical, and social imagination. This...
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LOKOTOWN AND OTHER STORIES
Cyprian Ekwensi is the outstanding chronicler of Nigerian city life. In this collection of his short stories, all the excitement and urgency as well as the seediness and disillusion that make up the world of the Hotel France, the Harlem,...
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PARLIAMENT OF IDIOTS: TRYST OF THE SINATORS
The new voices [of Africa], such as Tayo Olafioye, are a clear example of the break with the idyllic verses Africa was singing.
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TEMBA TUPU! (WALKING NAKED): AFRICANA WOMEN'S POETIC SELF-PORTRAIT
Temba Tupu! is a one-of-a-kind anthology brimming with a cross-section of poetic styles that represent the creative genius of Africana women from the beginning of written records.
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FROM A RED ZONE: Critical Perspectives on Race, Politics and Culture
This collection of essays explores several sites of racialized power, from scholarly works embedded in academic disciplines to “ethnic” museums and several race-based exclusionary political practices
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CHANGING CURRENTS: TRANSNATIONAL CARIBBEAN LITERARY AND CULTURAL CRITICISM
Changing Currents: Transnational Caribbean Literary and Cultural Criticism is a groundbreaking text of fifteen essays that present new modes of access for, as well as alternative meanings to, a number of well-known and not so well-known literary. Product details Publisher...
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IMAGINING EVIL: WITCHCRAFT BELIEFS AND ACCUSATIONS IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICA
Here is a book on witchcraft written mostly by Africansscholars, but also human rights activists and religious practitioners. It discusses witchcraft beliefs and accusations in various parts of sub-Saharan Africa.
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LEGITIMIZING HUMAN RIGHTS NGOS: LESSONS FROM NIGERIA
Drawing on lessons from the human rights NGOs in Nigeria, this book argues that most NGOs in Africa will need to do almost all of the following if they are to overcome the popular legitimization crisis that they currently face...
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BLOOD LUXURY: POEMS
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Publisher : Africa World Press, Inc. (November 15, 2005)
Language : English
Paperback : 110 pages
ISBN-10 : 1592214061
ISBN-13 : 978-1592214068
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IGBO ART AND CULTURE: AND OTHER ESSAYS BY SIMON OTTENBERG
This volume encompasses over forty years of scholarly research on African art, both traditional and modern, by the anthropologist, Simon Ottenberg. Focus is on the arts of the Afikpo, an Igbo group in southeastern Nigeria
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IGBO RELIGION, SOCIAL LIFE: AND OTHER ESSAYS BY SIMON OTTENBERG
In this volume Emeritus Professor Simon Ottenberg presents a number of detailed essays on the religious life of the Igbo people in southeastern Nigeria and on the Limba of northern Sierra Leone, based on extensive anthropological field research
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LIVING IN BABYLON: POEMS AND PERFORMANCES, INCLUDING, "WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IN?"
Esther Iverems new collection of poems is a wide-ranging meditation that proves the adage that the personal is political, and the political is profoundly personal.
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LION-MAN AND OTHER STORIES
Lion-Man & Other Stories is a collection of short stories culled from the culture and folklore of the indigenous people of Bamunka. Bamunka is a small village with a population of approximately 76,500
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KWAME NKRUMAH'S LIBERATION THOUGHT: A PARADIGM FOR RELIGIOUS ADVOCACY IN CONTEMPORARY GHANA
This book is an attempt to recapture the liberation philosophy of Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), first prime minister and first president of the Republic of Ghana in West Africa. The goals of this study are threefold: first,
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DIASPORA BLUES
Timeless and timely, there is verse and music in Diaspora Blues tuned by an acute intelligence. Ali Jimale Ahmeds pithy and elegant lines span the range from the classical Arabic jewels of an al-Maari, to the kind of ironies that grace the discursive...
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ZARA YACOB: Rationality of the Human Heart
Through a rare autobiographical act, Zara Yacob, who acquainted himself with the teachings of the Catholic Church introduced by Portuguese Jesuit missions in Sixteenth-century Ethiopia, becomes the first self-conscious founder of a philosophical tradition in Ethiopia. Indeed, it is a...
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AFRICAN THEATRE: Soyinka
An Intellectual history of considerable subtlety and richness ... lucid andrichly suggestive ... beautifully written' -- Professor Karin Barber, University of Birmingham An excellent and important book moving with great ease in very tricky terrain... I must confess that having...
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ECOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY OF MUSLIM TRADE IN WEST AFRICA
This collection brings together the key essays on the economic and social history of West Africa of Paul E. Lovejoy, Distinguished Research Professor of History at York University and holder of the Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History
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MAKERS AND BREAKERS: CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN POSTCOLONIAL AFRICA
The “problem” of youth is presented as one of the great challenges of the twenty-first century. In Africa youth are portrayed as perpetrators and victims in civil conflict, leaders and led in political and religious movements, innovators and dupes in...
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OBA'S STORY: RASTAFARI, PURIFICATION AND POWER
Obas Story tells of the life, religious development and work for justice of a Rastafarian on the island of St. Vincent in the Caribbean.
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OIL LAMP: POEMS
Oil is my curse, oil is our doom.Where are my children? Where is my husband?Ashes and bones, ashes and bones. So sings a 90-year-old widow whose husband fell off an oilrig and drowned.
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: A MULTIFACETED CHALLENGE
Using a variety of tools from various disciplines, Sustainable Development in Africa examines factors limiting sustainable development in Africa and recommends:
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VOICES FROM THE CONTINENT: A CURRICULUM GUIDE TO SELECETED SOUTHERN AFRICAN LITERATURE
This curriculum guide provides anthropological and historical research as well as literary criticism on six narratives from Southern Africa: Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga, When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head, Fools and Other Stories by Njabulo Ndebele, Six Feet of the Country by Nadine Gormider, and Mother to...
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